Department of Pediatrics

My interests center around primary care and the coordination of care for children with special needs and children with medical complexity.

My primary clinical interest is in infections in immunocompromised patients, including stem cell and solid organ transplant recipients. I am involved in numerous clinical trials involving vaccines, anti-infectives and diagnostics, in both the immunocompromised population and in other pediatric infections. I also study the pathogenesis of viral encephalitis, using models which focus on host-pathogen interactions in neurologic disease due to herpes simplex virus in newborns.

Dr. Hibbs has a research interest in perinatal epidemiology, particularly in understanding social determinants of racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes. Dr. Hibbs also has an academic focus in medical education.

My expertise is taking care of critically ill and/or medically complex neonates, as well as developing and enacting specialized delivery and postnatal plans. I utilize and encourage a team approach to patient care which includes family participation. As Co-Director (Neonatology) of the Chicago Institute for Fetal Health, I meet with families before birth for prenatal consultations to help them understand the fetal diagnosis and create a plan for any baby suspected to have a challenging diagnosis or need for specialized medical care after birth. I collaborate with the pediatric and OB/MFM speci...

Elizabeth Alpern is the George M. Eisenberg Professor of Pediatrics, Division Head of Emergency Medicine, and Vice Chair in the Department of Pediatrics of the Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She is both a pediatric emergency physician and clinical epidemiologist with research expertise in the use of large databases within research networks to improve the quality of emergent care delivered to children through application of evidence-based work. Dr. Alpern was funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) as the Princi...

My primary interests involve medical student & resident education, care of the acutely ill child & parental education on health maintenance for their children, preventative medicine, and child safety/injury prevention.

Dr. Becker has extensive training and experience in the practice of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) and has written a number of book chapters and articles on this approach to examining and addressing public health problems. He has applied this methodology to examine and address the impact of stressful community conditions on the health of women raising children, youth violence prevention, and the impact of the social and physical environment on physical activity. Dr. Becker serves as scientific lead for qualitative and evaluation research methods and community-engaged research in...

I am interested in the intersection between education and clinical care, and how we can optimize education for our front line providers and patients as clinical best practices continue to evolve. I have ongoing projects in the areas of readmission reduction, discharge process improvement, and health disparities for patients with Limited English Proficiency or preferred language other than English.  I serve as Program Director for the Pediatric Hospital Medicine fellowship, and the Rotation Leader for the Hospital Based Medicine elective for pediatric residents.  I am also a Physician Advisor, ...

I have clinical and research interests in food allergy including oral immunotherapy and biologic treatments, eosinophilic esophagitis, asthma and primary immunodeficiency. I have been a pricipal and co-investigator on over 30 NIH and industry-sponsored clinical trials in multiple therapeutic areas including food allergy, asthma, primary immunodeficiency and eosinophilic esophagitis. I am the director of Lurie Children's clinical Oral Immunotherapy Program.  

Dr. L. Nelson Sanchez-Pinto is a pediatric critical care physician, biomedical informatics specialist, and clinical data scientist. He graduated from medical school at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2006, and then completed a Pediatrics residency program at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in 2011, and a fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) in 2014. He obtained advanced fellowship training in informatics and data science research also at CHLA and completed a Masters of Biomedical Informatics program at Oregon Health & ...